In 1980, Billy Joel sang about Sleeping With The Television
On. Thirty two years later, having had Billy Joel
melodies in my head all night, I'm blogging about Leaving With
The Work Computer On. (Best I got this Monday
morning.) After a brief early-summer hiatus,
there's a very interesting decision that was issued a few weeks
ago in the case of Marcus v. Rogers (Superior Court of New
Jersey, 6/28/12).
The case was brought by a group of teachers in the Saddle Brook
School District in New Jersey. The school made computers available
in a central school location, and teachers sometimes used them to
check personal social media accounts. Defendant was
checking his e-mail on a computer, and accidentally bumped the
mouse of an adjacent computer, which removed that computer's
screensaver and revealed the e-mail inbox of a Yahoo account
belonging to another teacher (who neglected to log out before
leaving the room).
